Speaking as his "Arrested Development" co-star Jason Bateman received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, actor Will Arnett compared the show's fictional Bluth family to "that gang of clowns over in the White House." (July 27)
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In a tweet Tuesday — titled "On the next … Arrested Development" (Can't you hear Ron Howard's voice?) — from the cult comedy's Twitter account, creator Mitch Hurwitz sends a message to fans that a remixed Season 4 will be available Friday (the Bluth family's premature holiday of Cinco de Quatro) on Netflix and that the much-awaited Season 5 will premiere "like real soon," although there's no exact date. A new season for 2018 already had been announced.

"A new fifth season of Arrested Development will be coming back to Netflix soon. Like real soon. Like, if you knew when, you would not be wrong to be thinking 'why are we all just hearing this now?' Well, I don't mean to be defensive, but I don't know why everyone's suddenly mad at me," Hurwitz writes in his unique, roundabout and always entertaining style.

The Arrested remix will be a welcome treat for some viewers who were disappointed by Season 4 episodes that focused for the most part on single members of the bizarrely engaging Bluth family because of the cast's limited scheduling availability. That won't be the case with Season 5.

Hurwitz describes Season 4 as an experiment in "Rashomon-style storytelling," with episodes focusing on individual characters.

"The goal was that by the end of the season, a unified story of cause and effect would emerge for the viewer — full of surprises about how the Bluths were responsible for most of the misery they had endured," he writes. "In some ways to be an experience for that viewer, perhaps, akin to eating some toast, then some bacon — maybe a sliced tomato followed by some turkey and realizing, 'Hey, I think I just had a BLT.' "

With the remix, viewers presumably will be able to consume those BLT parts together in one binge sandwich.